Taking Flight

Wish World: quite the most unpleasant world yet. The scariest thing Doctor Who has shown us, ( Read more... ) That was not a subtle story but it landed some hits.
I think I'll withhold judgement until next week though. How the whole thing works depends on what he does with the ending. Nicely done so far but who knows.

I will say though it is the most RTD thing to make *that* earlier episode turn out to be important. So I rewatched ( Read more... )


Also listened to this week

Susan's War 3, Grandfather Time: more Time War stories, this time with the guy who doesn't want to be called The Doctor but thankfully for the writers will still answer to Grandfather.
I liked these two. Sending Susan on diplomatic rescue missions suits her. And this one of her grandfather has an extra edge to his actions, which compare contrasts interestingly to his earlier self who was still refusing the war after Susan had signed up.
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These Susan's War stories give her plenty to do and I like that.


After the Daleks, a Doctor Who Early Adventure, picks up Susan's adventures when she was still trying to get into the TARDIS that last time, then keeps going until she actually chooses for herself from a number of available options. It does a lot of good stuff with the setting, not just the immediate leftovers of the Dalek invasion but politics and bad guys stoking hate of aliens just to win an election. It would be really nice if that story was never timely.

Susan and Jack have a lot in common, and it would be interesting for them to have a conversation about it. Also, Jack would get to the relevant era on the slow path, which is actually pretty worrying when you think they'd still have to wait for the Doctor to fix things. Except Jack is from after the Time War and we're only sure Susan was there Before. What that whole era looks like After the Time War is still a question.

But Jack got left behind and according to Big Finish ended up in the historical record in such a way you have to wonder if a conscientious time traveller had to leave him there. And Susan does something here that would put her on the record right away. So, interesting.



I continue to like Doctor Who, so that's nice.

I haven't been sleeping great for a bit
and I keep falling asleep when I put a Doctor Who audio on, despite not falling asleep for all the other hours I tried,
and I realised it's just
the Doctor is here
anxiety goes way down.

... then of course there's Daleks or some such and I jolt awake again so as sleep methods go it needs some work, but, kind of helpful?



Also I am relistening ones with a Big Finish Master and he's just... for reasons unknown even to me he reminds me of the time way back in high school when we did work experience outings and one was at the golf course and a manager explained to us the Rules of Hospitality Work? And then challenged us to find one single thing Wrong with his place! And we found Many quickly. Like this voice isn't giving ultimate evil, it's giving possibly adding a payment meter to a hospital car park. I am... not enthused.



But my days proceed correctly, Nice Walks happen as scheduled, and May is a great month for Flowers, so that's very nice. Iris flowers are excellent, they are Purple or Yellow or White, and some of them have a Pattern, and they are very good to look at. Ducks are also good.


i just look forwards to getting more hours of sleep in a row quite soon.

I didn't even mean to start a new game, I just wanted to look something up and once it was loaded I fiddled with the difficulty settings and set it to normal numbers of enemies and normal damage and just basically 1 or standard or normal all up and down, plus the toggle that says enemies can do extra things. You'd think there was a difficulty level called All Normal Standard, but no, it is between two, Daring and Core https://pathfinderwrathoftherighteous.wiki.fextralife.com/Difficulty . And yet it is so so much easier than Core. I don't know what their math is like but there's half the enemies I've come to expect. It's ridiculous.

I should go back to the actual achievement getting run on Core, but it's just annoyingly difficult, while this is achievable.

I did not intend to stay awake this late but I played from the beginning through to Defenders Heart, about a third of the marketplace, Daeran, Camellia, and finishing Starward Gaze. And this is the first time since Neatholm that my characters have slept if you don't count passing out. So I should sleep now too.

The front of this book has a mini essay on pronunciation and several pages listing all the names of characters.
I needed this.
I spent so much time referring back to this.

The names being so unfamiliar to me added to the effect of being dropped in to a strange culture or two at the deep end, so that's nice, that's part of what the character has going on, that's a thing one could reasonably desire to induce the reader to feel.
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I think I only slightly like this pretty well written book.

But I put that next to my tendency to read franchise stuff forever - all things are Doctor Who all my life, and most things are Pathfinder for years now - and I think this effect of being landed in a world and having to figure it out amidst great confusion is exactly my least favourite thing about reading new stuff.

I think people who want a world plunked on them from a height and to have to figure it all out from clues are going to like this a lot better than I do.